Dread didn't have those obnoxious aeon abilities that turned every enemy into a damage sponge and integrated the parry better, so hey - improvement there at least.

My biggest criticism of the remake was that with all the flaws I could point to it failed to be clearly better than an early gameboy game, which - that game being a masterpiece for the circumstances it was made in or not, is a low bar to clear when you can copy it as a roadmap.

I mean that game being terrible is one of the reasons I'm not hyped for prime 4 despite it being one of my all time favourite franchises :p

(Yes most people liked BotW but I'm not actually all that thrilled about Open Field Simulator)

Dread as in fear, not as in "ugh, more of this crap" :p

And let's be real, adding an instant death mechanic to a game series where you're meant to be playing a character who feels increasingly like a goddamn tank the further she goes into the game is inexcusable, lmao.

enemy" - SAX is dull on a replay of the game because you know where she's going to show up and it's only in a few rooms, but the solution to that wasn't to make a less interesting enemy and fill the game with clearly marked "nothing's going to happen here but a chase" rooms.

out from the background. Sprites have always and will always be superior, but it's more work nowadays to do that.

The Emmis... I have no clue what you're talking about frankly. "Oh boy let's interrupt this metroidvania game with repettitive runs through bland empty areas with a boring looking

I'm perfectly allowed to say massive if I follow it with "IMO" :p - I at least acknowledge it improved on the much worse flaws their first metroid game had. To clarify on the 3D models, as with any 2.5D game using those they allowed for much less precise movement and made it harder to pick things

Day 1 complaints baby, I could dig up even more negative stuff I said timestamped on discord if I wanted :p

I mean same, and I didn't play Other M because I don't hate myself.

I might get this some time, probably will eventually, but the motorbike preview took it from "I will buy a switch 2 for this" down to "...Eh, this is probably pretty bad."

Hah yeah, who cares about treating children with the same respect as everyone else right? It's impossible to have diagetic tonally consistent tutorials, which is of course why nobody got into the series when we were younger and getting into it. :p

(Also I'm simultaneously amused and entirely baffled that 20 years have passed and they're still trying to make Sylux a thing: Random ass bland-looking bounty hunter who's sat in the background with no story hook :D)

fast for me, and I'm pretty happy to enjoy all the memes dunking on a nerdy guy following her around in the tutorial being mildly annoying.

bike sections" which feel completely disinteresting (She has a speed booster, in what world would I want to bother with a vehicle, let alone one that disrupts the gameplay flow? Why would a large open field be desirable anyhow?) ...Yeah, it went from easy system shifter for the switch 2 to meh very

Well, some people are superficially overreacting, yes. I'd say that I got into the series with Fusion and Prime 1, and despite loving it have been burned a lot by the series by this point. Considering that, my tepid mixed feelings on Dread, the fact I disliked BotW intensely and this has "open world

I'd say that super is *okay* but inferior to the GBA titles, and that Metroid 2 is my favourite incarnation of Metroid 2, with AM2R coming second and the nintendo remake of it by the dread team dead last.

But the emmi zones? Homogenous, taking up a ton of space, reducing the variety and blandifying the exploration of the entire game... Plus they're all the same encounter - a pain in the ass repettitive but easy evasion game with the punishment for failure being... Instant death. in a Metroid. Ugh.

Well, I can understand liking extremely long, hard boss fights that force you to use missiles over the beam almost exclusively (I like using the beam pretty frequently, damnit!), I can even understand that some people like QTEs even though I'm of the opinion they died out for good reason...

Dread has some *massive* flaws IMO. If nothing else the 3D model graphical style gets in the way of gameplay, the EMMIs add nothing valuable to the game experience and... Boss fights in Metroid shouldn't be *tedious*.

It'd probably help a lot with this heated comment stuff if you made a short statement that clears up your authorial intent with this storyline a bit.

Heheheh, hopefully inflated pooltoy keri some time :p

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